Main entry:

Poerschke, Ute, author.

Title & Author:

Architectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms / Ute Poerschke.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Description:

viii, 241 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
"First published 2014 as Funktionen und Formen. Architekturtheorie der Moderne by Bielefeld: Transcript."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
What are architectural functions? : On terms ; The relationship between scientific and architecture understandings of function ; Functions and purposes -- Function and representation : Carlo Lodoli ; Francesco Algarotti ; Francesco Milizia ; Andrea Memmo ; Impact -- Form and function in the structured whole : Gottfried Semper ; Karl Bötticher ; The organic ; Function and style ; Semper's and Bötticher's influence ; Louis Sullivan: "form follows function" ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- Concepts of function in high modernism : Hannes Meyer ; ABC ; Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus ; Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn ; Extra-architectural influences ; Conclusions ; Functionalism -- Functionalism and its criticism : CIAM and the functional city ; Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich ; Postmodernism ; Monofunctionalism, naive functionalism, construction industry functionalism -- Functions and forms in architecture of the information society : Space of flows, space of places, global cities ; The architectural discourse of the environmental movements ; Performativity in architecture ; Computer simulations ; Reconsidering architectural functions.

ISBN:

9781138642478 (hb ; alk. paper)
1138642479 (hb ; alk. paper)
9781138642485 (pb ; alk. paper)
1138642487 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315629964
9781317245605 (ePub ebook)
9781317245599 (Mobipocket ebook)
9781317245612 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architekturtheorie
Funktionalismus
Moderne
Postmoderne

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296862
Call No.: BIB 243180
Status: Available